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This 8 page paper provides a comprehensive history and background of the sexual harassment laws in the United States. The essay begins by reporting how and when the term sexual harassment was coined and the fact that the issue is not a new one. At least one author has traced serious incidents of sexual harassment to the 1800s. A chronology of the most important acts and laws regarding sexual harassment is included, beginning with the 1964 Title VII of the Civil Rights Act that also created the EEOC. The legal definition of sexual harassment is included along with the evolution of the concept over the years. The two specific types of sexual harassment are explained. An overview of two specific cases, Ford Motor Company and Lutheran Medical Center in New York is included. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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women entered the workforce in the textile mills in New England (Wyatt, Chronology, 2000). Jones reported that in 1835, printers in Boston actually conducted a campaign of intimidation against women
in an effort to get them to quit work (Wyatt, Chronology, 2000). At that time, and in fact, until the 1960s, there was no term to describe these kinds of
actions (Wyatt, Chronology, 2000). Feminists in the 1960s coined the term sexual harassment (Wyatt, Chronology, 2000). Two women are credited with initiating studies of sexual harassment in the workplace (Wyatt,
Background, 2000). Catherine MacKinnon, who was a professor at the University of Michigan Law School, and Susan Brownmiller, who was a feminist activist, brought the concept of sexual harassment as
an issue of power rather than an issue of sex to the consciousness of society (Wyatt, Background, 2000). Before the work of these two women, sexual harassment had been interpreted
as an issue of males sexual pursuit of women in any environment, an issue of normal biological attraction of women by men (Wyatt, Background, 2000). However, MacKinnon and Brownmiller and
then subsequent scholars argued that sexual behaviors in the workplace or the classroom was not normal biological behavior, it was pure and simple discrimination against women (Wyatt, Background, 2000). One
of the bases of their arguments was that the women harassed were always in an inferior position to the men who harassed them (Wyatt, Background, 2000). They argued that the
behaviors were for the purpose of keeping women in their place (Wyatt, Background, 2000). Sexual harassment has also turned away from sexual harassment as a problem or issue between individuals
to one that is inherent in the organizational climate (Wyatt, Background, 2000). Research has shown that sexual harassment is far more likely to occur in organizations where management or
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